We performed a comparison between Appian and IBM BPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Management (BPM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Appian is a very low code platform. It's very easy to learn and use."
"Process Modeling enables creation of business process workflows. You can create complex business workflows in a visual manner, and it is also easy to debug/monitor."
"It has created executable requirements and speeds up the SDLC process greatly."
"It reduces development time in half making us more efficient."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It's heavy on business processing in terms of logic, process workflows, and primarily on the process design modeler. Appian is really great at that. In terms of the full stack set from a low-code platform perspective, it's definitely an eye opener since it can be deployed via mobile app and on the web as well."
"The most valuable feature is business automation."
"Write to Data Store Entity - Saving data in SQL databases is done easily using entities. Entities (CDTs in Appian terminology) define relationships and target schema tables via XSD files."
"Its workflow and integration with SAP are the most valuable features. It is also a stable solution."
"IBM BPM is equipped with all the functionalities which are needed for building BPM enterprise-level applications."
"We like that it does not require a lot of hours to train our people."
"The case management and its integration with process design are good features."
"Automation is the most valuable feature of IBM BPM."
"The solution is stable."
"They have some quick-win programs that are designed to come in, they'll bring a developer in and they'll work with your developer to get you started. That's what we did and that worked really great. We got an understanding of the product, we got an understanding of how to deploy the product. And when we were done with that engagement, we were off and running."
"One of the reasons for adopting this solution ten years ago was its ease of use. It had a lot of off-the-shelf functionality, and it did not need to be developed specifically for the project that we were implementing. That was the main reason for adopting it in the beginning."
"Occasionally, certain pre-made modules may not be necessary and customers may desire greater customization options. Instead of being limited to pre-designed features, they may prefer a more flexible version that allows for greater customization."
"Something I would like to see improved is an SQL database connection."
"The performance is pretty good, but the distortions need to be optimized in order for it to work well."
"Lacks integration with other products."
"We would like to see more reduced latency. We would like to make sure that the scale-out factor will be much more as workloads come in."
"It needs better integration with our existing application ecosystem."
"One room for improvement is the ease of UI UX development, like in OutSystems and Mendix."
"Appian could improve their customer-facing initiatives."
"Performance on large scale requirements could also be improved."
"Process versioning was tricky, not straightforward."
"This is technology, and there's always room for improvement. It would be better to have a single solution. Trying to have an overview in terms of this solution brings together the concepts of BPM processes, customer journeys, and an automation part for KPIs. All of this working together and coming up with a single solution with privacy is more commercial than anything else."
"I have an interest around the robotic piece, and integrating that with the processes. I think that is certainly a good direction to be going."
"We had hoped that the product would provide us with plug-ins like Salesforce. Its development environment needs to improve. We expect to see elastic features like containerization. We don't just need an on-prem virtual machine."
"I would like to see the front-end support improved because it should be fully integrated and supported."
"IBM BPM can improve the dashboards and reports. It only has two dashboards, and reporting is very difficult to build."
"When you have to integrate files for enterprise applications."
Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 56 reviews while IBM BPM is ranked 5th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 105 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while IBM BPM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM BPM writes "Offers good case management and its integration with process design but there's a learning curve". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and Bizagi, whereas IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow, Apache Airflow and AWS Step Functions. See our Appian vs. IBM BPM report.
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